From: Adam 

Gary Wiltshire wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:43:39 -0500, Dave  wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:08:48 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"

>> wrote in message :
>>
>> | Not defending GB's viewpoint, but "Anglicans"
(including their local
>> | equivalents, "Episcopalians") are in a minority here, even of
>> Christians.
>>
>> They are, now...
>>
>> How many Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, evangelicals, Unitarians,
>> Seventh-Day Adventests, Jehovah's Witnesses,  and non-denominationals
>> were there in the Constitutional Convention?
>
> I don't know, but my recent reading of Selected Works of Thomas Paine
> certainly shows that the Church of England was a mere minority.  Frankly
> any single denomination is and probably was a minority.
>
> --Gary Wiltshire

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/tserve/eighteen/ekeyinfo/midcol.htm

But what it does show is that the Catholics (Gary B's professed religion)
were not exactly strong in a place dominated by fairly hardline Protestants
& Quakers.

So it's not like the Pope or his adherents can claim any role in forming
the US constitution etc.

Adam

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